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Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes. -- Jim Costa
I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal. -- Lindsay Wagner
Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America. -- David Wilkerson
Having to go through an intervention and family counseling is a wonderful experience. I would almost recommend it to anybody. It opens a lot of communication, and it opens old sores, but once it is opened and hashed out, the rewards are far greater. -- Susan Ford
Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room. -- Laura Wasser
I know some people need counseling but not everyone can afford it. -- Pattie Mallette
I'm a golfaholic. And all the counseling in the world wouldn't help me. -- Lee Trevino
Some struggling marriages can be salvaged with hard work and counseling; others should be dismantled and stripped for parts. -- Mallory Ortberg
Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart. -- Ram Dass
I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling. I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who didn't. -- John Templeton
It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student. -- William C. Menninger
By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling. -- Sydney J. Harris
funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other. -- Katha Pollitt
There is no problem in the family, ward, or stake that cannot be solved if we look for solutions in the Lord's way by counseling - really counseling - with one another. -- M. Russell Ballard
The overall goal [of counseling] is to help family members become 'systems experts' who could know [their] family system so well that the family could readjust itself without the help of an expert. -- Murray Bowen
I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play. -- Lee Trevino
Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
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The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching. Personal counseling imparts to the preacher a practical familiarity with human nature which he would not otherwise obtain. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
I think counseling is really important and we always love going and feel so much better after. I think everyone should go. People are like, 'It's so expensive' and this or that, but it's more important than buying clothes or a handbag or shoes. It's your life. -- Kourtney Kardashian
[Biblical counseling] Must insist that the image of God is central to developing a solid view of personality; that our sinfulness, not how we've been sinned against, is our biggest problem; that forgiveness, not wholeness, is our greatest need; that repentance, not insight, is the dynamic in all real change. -- Dan B. Allender
Motor Racing Outreach is great. They provide a chapel service every Sunday for drivers, wives, crew members, and others in the NASCAR industry so that we can gather and celebrate our faith. It's important to me to have this time before the race on Sundays. They also provide other services such as at-track childcare and counseling. -- Austin Dillon
I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist. -- Stephen Furst
If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling. -- Alan Thicke
If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle. -- Jack Adams
Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the Clinton administration debated the merits of paying for AIDS testing and counseling of vulnerable populations overseas. -- Barton Gellman
Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your relationship fit as well. -- Laura Wasser
One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.' -- Rafael Cruz
I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved. -- Gary Chapman
If you like to argue just for the sake of being contentious, you shouldn't pick a job based on this unresolved emotional issue of yours, you should get counseling for it. -- Tucker Max
For 30 years, which I never talked about in Hollywood, I actually worked with doctors lecturing and doing some medical intuitive counseling both in a medical setting and for the community at large. -- Diane Ladd
We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing. -- Roger Mahony
One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make. -- Max Lucado
As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion. -- Gary Johnson
Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training, job-readiness skills, literacy instruction and, if necessary, the counseling and mental-health services they need to move into the mainstream workforce. -- George R. Roberts
Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship. -- Laura Wasser
And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point. -- Michael Berryman
Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job. -- Gerald Chertavian
You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family. -- Chuck Grassley
With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views. -- Robert H. Schuller
Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorced. When the bad starts outweighing the good on a consistent basis, you may feel that taking the next step is appropriate. It is a very personal decision and most likely should be arrived upon with the help of some kind of counseling or support. -- Laura Wasser
Is there stop 'n' go counseling for couples on the run? -- Becky Freeman
The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling -- Kabir
Virgo: Your teddy bear will reveal that he is pregnant and will require counseling. -- Sue Limb
Biblical counseling is listening to a person long enough until you hear a violation of scripture. -- Henry R Brandt
Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy. -- Winifred Gallagher
I don't think the victims should be babied, but there should be a counselor to teach them coping mechanisms. The bully needs counseling too. -- Laura Michelle Kelly
I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling. -- Pam Grier
A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future. -- Andy Stanley
Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to them. -- Natalie Dormer
As a matter of fact, one of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, every five years you must have end-of-life counseling. Translation: suicide counseling. -- Rafael Cruz
Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can live with for a long, long time. -- Robert D. Arnott
Congress would make it mandatory, absolutely require, that, every five years, people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner -- Betsy McCaughey
A large fraction of our total economy has grown up around providing service and counseling to inadequate people -- and inadequate people are the main product of government compulsion schools. -- John Taylor Gatto
I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal." -- Lindsay Wagner
A lot of times if you go to counseling you find out the thing we think are big issues to our partner is not near as big as we think it is. -- Gabrielle Dennis
Given this president [Donald Trump] and his lack of military experience, I think it actually might be a good thing to have someone who understands the military very deeply to be counseling him. -- Peter R. Mansoor
NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy and counseling, diplomatic and business negotiations, disputes and conflicts of any nature. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg

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